Workers’ Health and Safety

How Universal Health Coverage Reaches the World’s Poorest: Community Health Workers

Pushpa Rathod’s work days are unpredictable. On any given day, she may be talking to adolescents about their health, counseling women working...

Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

StreetNet Interational: Organizing for Social Protection

This pamphlet showcases the work and goals of StreetNet International in helping street vendors gain social protection. It was produced with...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

October 7 is World Day for Decent Work with a focus this year on “investing in the care economy.” Whether providing preventative health information,...

Universal Health Coverage Workshop at ASEAN People’s Forum

• September 12, 2019 - 12:00pm
• Bangkok, Thailand

HomeNet Southeast Asia, in collaboration with regional advocacy platform SEA Junction and WIEGO, held a panel discussion on social protection...

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

  July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan Labour Force

Hidden health costs of pesticide use in Zimbabwe’s smallholder cotton growers

Health Conditions of Recyclable Waste Pickers

Abstract: The presence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among vulnerable populations is a rarely discussed subject. Thus, the...

Participatory Training to Improve Safety and Health in Small Construction Sites in Some Countries in Asia: Development and Application of the WISCON Training Program

Abstract: A participatory training program, Work Improvement in Small Construction Sites, was developed to provide practical support measures...